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VOURA (Ancient city) DIAKOPTO
Boura: Eth. Bouraios, Bourios. A town of Achaia, and one of the 12
Achaean cities, situated on a height 40 stadia from the sea, and SE. of Helice.
It is said to have derived its name from Bura, a daughter of Ion and Helice. Its
name occurs in a line of Aeschylus, preserved by Strabo. It was swallowed up by
the earthquake, which destroyed Helice, B.C. 373, and all its inhabitants perished
except those who were absent from the town at the time. On their return they rebuilt
the city, which was visited by Pausanias, who mentions its temples of Demeter,
Aphrodite, Eileithyia and Isis. Strabo relates that there was a fountain at Bura
called Sybaris, from which the river in Italy derived its name. On the revival
of the Achaean League in B.C. 280, Bura was governed by a tyrant, whom the inhabitants
slew in 275, and then joined the confederacy. A little to the E. of Bura was the
river Buraicus; and on the banks of this river, between Bura and the sea, was
an oracular cavern of Heracles surnamed Buraicus. (Herod. i. 145; Pol. ii. 41;
Strab. pp. 386, 387, and 59; Diod. xv. 48; Paus. vii. 25. § 8, seq.) The ruins
of Bura have been discovered nearly midway between the rivers of Bokhusia (Cerynites),
and of Kalavryta (Buraicus) near Trupia. (Leake, Morea, vol. iii. p. 399, Peloponnesiaca,
p. 387.) Ovid says that the ruins of Bira, like those of Helice, were still to
be seen at the bottom of the sea; and Pltny makes the same assertion. (Ov. Met.
xv. 293; Plin. ii. 94.) Hence it has been supposed that the ancient Bura stood
upon the coast, and after its destruction was rebuilt inland; but neither Pausanias
nor Strabo states that the ancient city was on the coast, and their words render
it improbable.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
One of the twelve original cities of Achaea, formerly situated near the sea; but having been destroyed by an earthquake, it was rebuilt by the survivors about forty stadia from the shore, on the river Buraicus.
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